Selected Opinion

By Eric Trager – The Hill – Amr Darrag, a senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, will be speaking at Georgetown University on Thursday, and he is trying to extend his speaking [...]

By Dr. Ashraf Ramelah – Under the Al-Sisi government, Copts expect the religious scholars of Al-Ahzar Institute to reform Islam. A good beginning would look like this: removal of [...]

By Farid Farid – The National (UAE) – via AINA – Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria’s first pastoral visit to Australia has sparked criticism in the Egyptian press that the [...]

By Hatem Maher – MENA Source – The Atlantic – When President Donald Trump won the US presidential election late last year, Egyptian media coverage praising his stunning rise to [...]

By Stephen Hollingshead and Loay Mikael – The Hill –  The horrors of the ISIS genocide continue, and the most deliberative body in the world is standing in the way of fixing a major [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute –  Yazidis, Alevis and women in the region are also being abused by Turkish authorities, and dozens of Kurdish journalists who have publicized this [...]

Youssef Sidhom – Watani – In its 20 August issue, Watani carried the headline “In Minya: 15 closed churches and 70 villages without churches”. The headline of the following issue of [...]

By Cynthia Farahat – Middle East Forum – Al-Azhar University, the world’s largest Sunni Islamic educational institution, is where many of the world’s most brutal [...]

By Sameh Sabri – Ahram Canada– We are disappointed because you appointed an extremist man of dark ideas, Dr. Mohammad Othman el-Khosht, a president of Cairo University, and you [...]

By Maged Atiya – Subway systems in most major cities have information Kiosks to guide the lost or confused travelers to their desired destinations. Egypt does things differently, as [...]